2013 Tour de France, Stage 15: Givors - Mont Ventoux 242.5 Km

[murali]

will movistar chase the breakaway, what do you think?or katusha, saxo?

Cant see why saxo will chase. they need as many domestiques as they possible to counter skytrain.

movistar will only follow wheel till the foot of the climb.

Katusha maybe a possbility.

btw, any news about wind?

 

[Frosty]

48 kmph hilly first hour. and silly us thought that they are tired after the last two days...

There is a tailwind. First hour is often fast while the break tries to get away.

 

[brilleaben]

Who's in the 10 man bweak?

 

[Vino's Mum]

any idea on who is leading peloton?

Sky, @ 7'05".

 

[Dazed and Confused]

any idea on who is leading peloton?

It will be Sky.
They will probably give the break 12-15 minutes and then see what happens.

 

[jens_attacks]

rolland made it. that's his stage if he has 4 minutes on the peloton in bedoin

 

[murali]

umm, yeah, no

The guy has been living 2 years already off the fact that he has won L Alpe d' huez.

If he adds Ventoux to that list, madone, he could retire right there right then.

looks like he will be doing it. Though I am not sure he will actually retire

 

[Frosty]

Who's in the 10 man bweak?

Current situation

http://www.letour.fr/le-tour/2013/us/live/aso/

 

[roundabout]

10 charact

He dropped Rolland like a stone that day.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Then what was going on in the first part of Vuelta '12 for Nairo?

he came back from colombia. he needed time to adapt from 11 degrees to 40+ degrees like every human being would. that is very normal. this year at tour starts was 30 degress and it already didn't affect him

 

[murali]

It will be Sky.
They will probably give the break 12-15 minutes and then see what happens.

12-15 min?

If they allow such a gap, then i will never follow sky, even if they manage to win every gt from now on.

 

[Frosty]

With a rest day coming up someone will want to send a few team-mates to the front to push things along and tire some legs out before Ventoux. Ordinarily that would be sky but given their depleted resources i think they will be happy to trundle along at the front. Chavanel wont be a threat for the overall even if he takes a huge chunk of time today.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

I didn't say they don't benefit from heat, I pointed out that the location of birth "would not be a reason for that".

Since you are generalizing that its all Colombians though, i would care to note that in the coldest stage of a gt in recent years, Colombians finished 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 9th.

Btw since we are on that topic and we haven't seen you here in a while, i thought i might ask what your reactions were to seeing Nibali outclimb them all like that. You ready to revise that list of 30 riders that can outclimb Nibali, you made earlier this year

yes which prooves they are also great in cold, not that they are bad in heat

 

[murali]

he came back from colombia. he needed time to adapt from 11 degrees to 40+ degrees like every human being would. that is very normal. this year at tour starts was 30 degress and it already didn't affect him

i remember reading somewhere that he will come back to france a bit earlier so that he wont have to face the situation that he faced in spain.

 

[Kris13]

12-15 min?

If they allow such a gap, then i will never follow sky, even if they manage to win every gt from now on.

Why would they care about break? They are not any threat to Froome.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Front group just teasing Rolland

 

[Dazed and Confused]

12-15 min?

If they allow such a gap, then i will never follow sky, even if they manage to win every gt from now on.

I don't think that should be a reason not to follow them. Any other team in their position would do the same.

 

[Frosty]

12-15 min?

If they allow such a gap, then i will never follow sky, even if they manage to win every gt from now on.

Why? They are two men down, Thomas has a cracked pelvis, why should they have to power along on the longest stage of the tour?

 

[murali]

who will be working for kwaitowsky in OPQS? I thought he was Chavanel's responsibility. Or is chavanel up to allow for kwaitowsky to bridge a gap to him?

 

[GazelleFormula]

10 not making it easy for counter-attacking pair
Rolland and Burghardt were as close as 15" to the 10 stage leaders but they have drifted behind and now have 35" to make up if they're going to make it to the big group that began their escape at 30km.

They are making Rolland suffer for it.

 

[Frosty]

Front group just teasing Rolland

The two behind must be hoping that Rolland gets on soon, hopefully then the front group would slow a bit and they could make it.

 

[melkemugg]

They are burning rolland out

 

[Cyivel]

Europcar on the front, gap to 6'40, let Rolland in the front group!

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Rolland not up just yet. The front group speeded up when they heard he was close. Good decision.

 

[wirral]

Gap to peloton dropped by over one minute, Europcar very unhappy.